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by uvdiv 13y ago
Are there Skype alternatives which aren't so thoroughly dependent on a third party?
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by uvdiv 13y ago
To see their point, imagine an American in rural Mississippi being told she cannot move to New York City to seek a better career. Tangentially, this is exactly the situation in China today. The central government restricts movement, parti
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by uvdiv 13y ago
Although I suppose the complications of things like benefits and medical care make it probably un-implementable in practice. There's a case to be made that welfare states are immoral for this reason. If national social guarantees force yo
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by uvdiv 13y ago
There would be no problem marketing those cigarettes as smoking cessation devices, they would then just fall under the same rules as other such devices (nicotine patches, gum) and manufacturers don’t want that. If they are being deterred,
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by uvdiv 13y ago
There are already FDA regulations which severely restrict their advertising, FTA: "The companies are not allowed to market them as smoking cessation devices because that would put them in the category of other nicotine replacement products
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by uvdiv 13y ago
I believe he means the FDA will impose restrictions that will reduce the use of e-cigarettes. Not precisely what "regulate" means, but a common connotation.
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by uvdiv 13y ago
A lot of the radiation that the sun's core emits gets through its surface without interacting with it much. This is false. The sun is very opaque; photons from the core could take millions of years to reach the surface. https://en.wiki
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by uvdiv 13y ago
I actually like this ad. The link in the article's gone 451, here's a mirror: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=948_1366967562 (trigger warning?) What does offend me is the attempt to stifle public discussion of the ad by censoring it from
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by uvdiv 13y ago
This place is apparently close to the center of SF: http://goo.gl/maps/zwBes It's really amazing how underdeveloped the area is. It looks like a 50-year-old farm town.
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by uvdiv 13y ago
You're the author? I think you have a parsing issue. I'm looking at barium: apparently the color-coding only looks at the number, discarding the unit (ug vs. mg). The MCL is 1 mg/L; for a measurement of "514 ug/L" (=0.514 mg/L), you code it
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by uvdiv 13y ago
What's the interpretation of comparing a contaminant level in a monitoring well (in the soil?) with a standard meant for drinking water? The "total reading" statistic is a bit useless. 5 ug/L here, 10 ug/L there, does NOT make 15 ug/L total
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by uvdiv 13y ago
An MIT police officer was killed. A university police officer has died after being shot on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge late Thursday, according to state police. http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/18/us/cambridge
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by uvdiv 13y ago
"A while" -- no kidding! UPDATE: 3:02 P.M.: The Federal Aviation Administration has advised that American Airlines has extended its ground stop to at least 7 p.m.
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by uvdiv 13y ago
"How would you feel if your neighbour went over and bought a commercial observation drone that they can launch from their backyard. It just flies over your house all day. How would you feel about it?" Well to throw Mr. Schmidt's own words
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by uvdiv 13y ago
They seem to only have one data point (2009-09-10).
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by uvdiv 13y ago
13 Spills. 30 Days. Nearly 1.2 Million Toxic Gallons And $300 billion in economic wealth.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
I think the moons are okay. The very early algorithms we're seeing are primitive -- they try to avoid moons by thrusting directly away from them, which is a bad idea. When people introduce proper route planning, moons will look less overpow
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by uvdiv 14y ago
North Korea claims, unverifiably, that their most recent test involved a miniaturised device: http://www.npr.org/2013/02/12/171818226/did-north-korea-test...
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by uvdiv 14y ago
This is pathetic. You're violating the privacy of families who've certainly done nothing wrong (laptop thieves resell their gains to unsuspecting customers). HN shouldn't support this.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
UPDATE: Here's the current abstract from the ACS. Lead is a neurotoxin that severely impairs cognitive development and intellectual performance in children. It causes blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases in adults in addition to indu
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by uvdiv 14y ago
It doesn't make sense to me either. If the FDA found n.d. levels of lead in all their samples, you would expect some of the new study's samples to have low levels as well.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Yes, virtually everything. Out of about 10,000 samples of 731 different food products, the FDA found nothing within orders of magnitude of these lead levels. http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/FoodScienceResearch/TotalD... pp. 69-80
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Here's an abstract from the researcher, Tsanangurayi Tongesayi. Not this exact presentation, but apparently the same research: Lead was present in all the foods samples and its concentration ranged from 4.3 to 17.9 µg/g. Some baby rice foo
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by uvdiv 14y ago
I think you're misunderstanding that reference. The amount of radioactive material is not that different; the distinction is that a ground burst localizes some of it at ground zero. It creates a small area which will be an acute radiation h
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by uvdiv 14y ago
The fallout is from neutron radiation of the ground, which doesn't happen in space. The amount of direct radiation from the uranium that is used is actually quite small. Can you cite this? I think the major dose component of nuclear fallo
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Since the speed-of-light delay for 100 feet is 100 ns, and SSD latencies are on the order of 10-100 us, this shouldn't be a fundamental issue. Maybe it's caused by the latency to the disk cache (DRAM)? In which case perhaps you could separa
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by uvdiv 14y ago
I've been looking for an answer to this question for a while -- why not build a digital commodity currency , where useful computation is a commodity? (I've yet to find a satisfying response to this). Several problems come to mind: * There'
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Which ones are the historical valuable ones and which ones are tire tracks?
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by uvdiv 14y ago
If you're my age and you remember the CFC media blitz of the late 80's: TCE/1,1,1-TCE are apparently archetypical examples of CFCs. They're not C[F]Cs -- no [f]luorine in them.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
(YC S12)

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